LGD couldn't field a roster because 4 of their players (YYF, ChuaN, 830, ch) left the team 1-2 weeks prior to the tournament and was replaced by French team Virus.

It is also known that DK was originally an invited team, but they had 1 missing player (YaphetS) and was replaced by Nirvana.cn.

It's a shame whether directly or indirectly that Starsboba, one of the best teams in SEA back in the days, never recovered from missing TI1. Some of them switched to LoL and some retired. Haven't seen anything notable from the Vietnamese scene since then.

Do you mean during TI1 era? The team to beat was LGD (ZSMJ, YYF, ChuaN, ch, 830), followed by CCM (zhou, Ferrari, xiao8, ddc, SanSheng) and TyLoo (Hao, DD, kabu, Awoke, Faith). DK who had (BurNIng, Yaphets, KingJ, sharingan, Ksssssss) famously sucked majorly at every single Chinese tournament. The DK that was dominating was post-TI1 when rOtk and Super joined.